Beyond the 1/T p limit: Two-photon-excited fluorescence using pulses as short as sub-10-fs

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Pang, Shuo ^a   Yeh, Alvin T ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Meissner, Kenith E ^a  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiphoton microscopy; Two photon excited fluorescence; Ultrashort laser pulse

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION LINE WIDTHS; ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LASER PULSE DURATION; MOLECULAR RESPONSE; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PULSE DURATIONS; SIGNAL CHARACTERIZATION; SIGNAL GENERATION; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE;

ABSORPTION; DISPERSIONS; FLUORESCENCE; HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSE GENERATORS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 74049112014     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3253388     Document Type: Article

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